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Royal charter of rights agreed to by King John.
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Located in West Virginia is the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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The first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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A document setting out specific individual protections against the state.
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This sets out certain basic civil rights and clarifies who would be next to inherit the Crown.
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This was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
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This an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
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British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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A political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.
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These were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.
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"The Shot Heard Around The World" British soldiers v.s. the colonist military.
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A meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War.
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A pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that declared our independence.
